The photon yield reached values up to 0.22 per P-decay; the lifetime of the excited levels was obtained from the delayed coincidences between the photons and the @-particles. I n the observed spectral range (1.1 to 0.19 pm) only three emission bands were obtained; one of them showed different lifetimes a t the sides. Interpretation: By the shake-up process (sudden change of nuclear charge during @-decay of W a ) the daughter ion Sc+ is populated with a probability of 0.2 per P-decay in the excited state 4s5a lS,. Before a n optical emission takes place, the excited Sc+ recombines by charge transfer from the ligands; hereby the preferred populated levels are the 3d4s4p 2P (and 2F) terms (Ti, in Xe-lattice), the lifetimes of which are (9.0 5 0.5) and (4.6 f 0.9) ns. Dipol transitions into the ground levels 3d4s2 2D (in Xe-lattice split into Tzg and ER) give the observed bands. By the Xe-matrix the transition 3d4s4p 2P + 3d4s2 2D is shifted by (3300 5 250) cm-l t o shorter wavelengths. The splitting of the ground state by the Xc-ligands is 10 Dq = (2200 + 300) cm-l. 300) cni-l = 10 Dq.